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78 ON REPTILES FROM THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. [JAIL. 14, ODONTOMUS MULLERI. (=Lycodon mulleri, D. & B.) Surigao. SPILOTES MELANURUS, Schleg. South Leyte. DENDROPHIS PHILIPPINENSIS, sp. n. (Plate IV.) This is the Philippine representative of Dendrophis caudolineata. Scales in thirteen rows, those of the vertebral series a little larger than the others. Eye of moderate size. Loreal longer than high, and pointed behind. The preorbital does not touch the vertical; occipitals obtuse behind; two postoculars. Temporals 2-f 2-\- 2, the anterior small, the posterior largest. Ten upper labials, the fourth, fifth, and sixth entering the orbit. Ventrals 167, strongly keeled; anal bifid. Greenish olive, with a straight black band commencing in the loreal region, and running backwards along the upper side of the neck, and disappearing at a shorter or greater distance from the head. A black line along the meeting of the outer series of scales and the subcaudal shields runs to the tip of the tail; sometimes it is accompanied by another black line running above and parallel to it, A black line along the meeting edges of the sub­caudals. A single specimen, 40 inches long, was obtained in N . Mindanao ; a second specimen, from Cuming's collection, is in the BritisfrMuseum. TRAGOPS PRASINUS, Reinw. North Mindanao. DIPSAS DENDROPHILA, Reinw. Butuan. DIPSAS CYNODON, CUV. North Mindanao. HOLOGERRHUM PHILIPPINUM, Gthr. Placer. PSAMMODYNASTES PULVERULENTUS, Boie. Dinagat Island, Placer. LYCODON AULICUS, L. Butuan. [Luzon.] CERBERUS RHYNCHOPS, Schneid. Placer. [Negros.] NAJA TRIPUDIANS, L. North Mindanao, South Leyte. TRIMERESURUS WAGLERI, Schleg. Butuan.